New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-16
includes 20 par cent hospitals etc
| coutingaaries 49, .
The completion q the canal viii relui:e six years ons f0
aal location AMI five for active work OF construction


| Isthmus:
Tene mountains forming IA; continental G nT1S
ey direction THIS brings acros, the eogr;e o. ~ north
sap Pacific h, orse1s yeatqSS e and aa GF sln
afy Siesrsgua b. the wind reaches the
surpu, moisture gone AMI .no qTlsT a a
m@siurs Hence ddrence in climate between NE east
ss ss ~sT rom @s sO ~ to Nay
miles tbroSsS swaps asOons bordering the A.
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%nGaes anG T our " state. may
eoaS grows and the dspor the citizen Of
nna TsfS S wasG S @ With the and
and spread as the green bav tree they form the
predomnang from tbs Gultot Honduras 70 Aspnwa
Nicaragus have received eueOmum, Of Wis
S ,9s fss A1 s GoPa@ss when the
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| NICARAGUA LAKE AS GREAT HARBoR
j. W. Miller, the general manager of the Nicaragua
Steamship Company, read the last paper of the after
noon, Historical and Geographical Notes Concerning
Nicaragua Lake basin Among other things Mr Miller
said:
for the sixty miles Of s Is the only river
Of the tropics not subject e sudden se an T s o. s @
we have navigation for 80 miles leaving
S Sniy Of ir ny against
miles Of smooth fresh water navigation woGa be pref
ose NO inc NORTH and south Of Nicaragua beyond
wind belt Commanders vessels also know what adj
over and there another Of great
iOns md consequently eliminates danger from block
directly to the lake where they can
lee Of the numerous Islands with tie products Of the
Ssal aS:ty or
to 6s otharoo as1 at ether
t e tsSy G a cs msV day sTTivc '"0
estimator The once built there WI be is Of over
one hundred feet IN distance 1o OF nine atlantic Tp ' THIS f
win be perfectly under control and 10 serve com
ohsnroi into bic commodities tho waste energy
The lake Passing vessels VIII anchor here and g
will line lake where the fleets Of the world will meet
EDIsoN's PYRoMAGNEIC DYNAMO.
Inventor Thomas A. Edison could not come in TO read
| his own paper his invention. the pyromagneiic
from fuel Professor George + Barker described
machine at the morning session OF the section on physcs
and nearly all the prominent members OF the association
were hand to listen. MI. Edison's paper began by
giving some Of the results that had been by
| in substance as follows:
engine therefore the thermoccll appears to fol
0% na ns hs Sv % e engine o. tbs
All 1t must be look ed Tor in some other direction
the magnetic metals and especially aHsc,o o. bOH sG
saco magnetic ded 3are. @ strength in the
0 41 to e sa by Pase an IRON mag
ncto ciIeut and by VARYING The o. '1 core
SO OF wire IN M tins So.s % asa
therefore have called pyromagneho generator oil eiec
The principle utilizing tho Of maguotizahity
BY heat as the ba., OF electric maehnss sc1Sn Ge1r p
simple form Of heat snSn which haY1 called
the generator Subsequently constructed suppose peina
nsn sayng ep po al Sa isCS' S a
axis perpendicular to the plane OF The magnet after hS
means such blast or drsugt not arr can be made to
.hs1 Sg and eoVeng one
Of the s' heated an 20 the tubes 6ensa
that % screen be 81 tue ssa
T no, IA The AIS s9'e 4 so sSs ap
the screen) win be equidistant from tho poles aug
T screen slDSS s ta1nea i'ea about the axis rotation
SO that one ends nearer one me Ia a e
the portion under the screen which c9o, am erSfe
This device acts therefore as pyromaeaeiic motor The
dGce adssym1ery IN the nes OF ioco o. te IRON MI SY
The guard this action analogous TO that
imesta motor constructed this principle heated by
blast developed about 700 Ooipound. minute
ss0na many ana S pon5S an cgpsed to develop about
three horsepower In both these machines
gize being derived from IN external sonree In The lat
Ter machine the air for the combustion Is first forced through
the tubes aid in cooling them and then goes INTO The furnace
The or consists OF sight electric magnets raday
arranged around poles CONNECTED VIII tWo 'Si o. on
corrugated when the magnets are charged these ros
apparatus being placed furnace and hot ar passing
through these r9 eref t hb bs disc semi
circular plate made to revove so that II cuts on heat from
Continually The Current electricity being
site t& to tha if q the Jour without
that the generated are given com
machine described PLACED Tpon the 70? Of
coS6asto@ forced up through !ho.s insr,ita aTma
them 70 high temperature The aeld magnet, when
lures which are cold beneath the guard plate
rotating this plate the ntesttal armatures success
| siye ont he
continually during the motion four OF the eight ama
gaining f heat bn those whch are losing heat are gaining
dsgeo2sd By this dyqa@ T w III d. d.
eepeha - upon ns in w ork
Ing 5ate q tempe yaTlaiion and g.
win gained Of BY raising the temperance OF tho
on ony ths oSsT hand to cool below tho point
sGs' Of mc r nor
S e a sPs S O & i
results thus far oetsoed lead to the conclusion that
& u any OF the mssod se But
the acua output Of the dynamo VIII be les than that Of an
teencandle lights dwelling house would probably require
necs tie ney dynamic Will not utesf with
%sns the excess OF Sna the Coz" d foe
mo S r. Keep Of & G orsoge
by using the Iegeneratiye principle IN connection WIN 1t
s utility NAY VIXEN ysy PSsS equal tho Interesting on
Barker read another paper for Professor Ed
ison upon A Magnetic Bridge or Balance for Meas;
uring Magnetic Condnctiviy" The paper described
magnetic bridge which is applied to mag
netic measurement in the the
wheatsone bridge applied TO electric measurements
considerable discussion OF these papers the follow
ing papers were heard: 1.-THE Simultaneous Measure
men OF the Speed of Engine and dynamo by Electric
Means. by Professor H. g. Carhart. OF Ann Arbor Mich
"The Electrical Condition OF of the Atmosphere In Fair
Weather and During Thunder Storms" by Professor T.
c. Mendenhall and Professor A. L. Mcliae OF Terre
Haue. Ind. Vice President Anthony then closed the
morning session OF the section In the Afternoon the fol-
lowing papers read: thine of Exposure and Mass
Considered Functions OF the Rate OF Saturation OF
Heat In the Case OF Mercury and Water" by Professor
W. A. Rogers. of Waterve Maine and 1.-The Definition
OF the Ohm by the Equation REX cs also by Professor
Rogers; "a Peculiar Form OF Unduatory Current Suited
to Telegraphng Telephone Circuits by
Professor p H. Van der Weyde of the New York Med-
cal College; "SOme Notes Standard Cells" by Pro-
fessor IL. s. Carhart Certain Phenomena Produced
by the Explosion Of Cotton Metallic Plates" by